Max
@maxmcc.bsky.social
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Almost became a historian one time
Almost became a historian one time
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I mean come the hell on…
The request for a gift for King Charles came from a State Department liaison who used the email address “giftgirl2025” and initially told the museum that they were looking for “like a sword or something,”
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/a...
The request for a gift for King Charles came from a State Department liaison who used the email address “giftgirl2025” and initially told the museum that they were looking for “like a sword or something,”
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/a...
After Declining to Give Trump a Sword for King Charles, a Museum Leader Is Out
www.nytimes.com
October 3, 2025 at 12:55 AM
I mean come the hell on…
The request for a gift for King Charles came from a State Department liaison who used the email address “giftgirl2025” and initially told the museum that they were looking for “like a sword or something,”
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/a...
The request for a gift for King Charles came from a State Department liaison who used the email address “giftgirl2025” and initially told the museum that they were looking for “like a sword or something,”
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/a...
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BREAKING: Our client Mario Guevara, an Emmy-winning journalist detained by ICE in retaliation for livestreaming law enforcement activity, will be deported tomorrow to El Salvador.
Mario and his family are being punished for his reporting. This cruelty is meant to stifle our free press.
Mario and his family are being punished for his reporting. This cruelty is meant to stifle our free press.
October 2, 2025 at 10:42 PM
BREAKING: Our client Mario Guevara, an Emmy-winning journalist detained by ICE in retaliation for livestreaming law enforcement activity, will be deported tomorrow to El Salvador.
Mario and his family are being punished for his reporting. This cruelty is meant to stifle our free press.
Mario and his family are being punished for his reporting. This cruelty is meant to stifle our free press.
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Every few months now I re-read this "Who Goes Nazi?" piece from 1941 and am blown away by how it captures the people we are dealing with 80 years later.
harpers.org/archive/1941...
harpers.org/archive/1941...
Who Goes Nazi?, by Dorothy Thompson
harpers.org
October 1, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Every few months now I re-read this "Who Goes Nazi?" piece from 1941 and am blown away by how it captures the people we are dealing with 80 years later.
harpers.org/archive/1941...
harpers.org/archive/1941...
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The thing that’s surprised me most about Trump II is how brazenly they’ve acted like Nazis. Loud, casual, jocular even.
Fucking Ross Vought plans to take $8B from green programs in blue states and he just… tweeted it out. Totally unafraid.
What a strange and back-biting way to behave.
Fucking Ross Vought plans to take $8B from green programs in blue states and he just… tweeted it out. Totally unafraid.
What a strange and back-biting way to behave.
Breaking News: The White House asked nine top universities to pledge support for President Trump’s agenda to help ensure access to research funding.
Trump Administration Asks Colleges to Sign ‘Compact’ to Get Funding Preference
Demands sent to nine top schools included pledging to freeze tuition for five years and to commit to strict definitions of gender.
nyti.ms
October 2, 2025 at 5:18 AM
The thing that’s surprised me most about Trump II is how brazenly they’ve acted like Nazis. Loud, casual, jocular even.
Fucking Ross Vought plans to take $8B from green programs in blue states and he just… tweeted it out. Totally unafraid.
What a strange and back-biting way to behave.
Fucking Ross Vought plans to take $8B from green programs in blue states and he just… tweeted it out. Totally unafraid.
What a strange and back-biting way to behave.
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Respectfully disagree: 1) in fact it is unusual for a democracy w/ this level of GDP to turn authoritarian & so quickly; 2) the weakness of both institutions (congress & courts) and individuals (Schumer etc) is shocking. Would take less than 10 people in congress or 2 SC justices to stop all this.
What America is going through is not unusual in historical terms. Plenty of examples like it today elsewhere in the world.
What makes it unusual is the rapid collapse from a set of widely espoused norms and values that centered on liberty. It is the sacking of the shining city on hill that shocks.
What makes it unusual is the rapid collapse from a set of widely espoused norms and values that centered on liberty. It is the sacking of the shining city on hill that shocks.
September 18, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Respectfully disagree: 1) in fact it is unusual for a democracy w/ this level of GDP to turn authoritarian & so quickly; 2) the weakness of both institutions (congress & courts) and individuals (Schumer etc) is shocking. Would take less than 10 people in congress or 2 SC justices to stop all this.
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Franklin uttered the phrase on this very date (September 17), the last day of the Constitutional Convention, in 1787
"A republic, if you can keep it"
-- Benjamin Franklin
-- Benjamin Franklin
September 18, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Franklin uttered the phrase on this very date (September 17), the last day of the Constitutional Convention, in 1787
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great news! you're not actually seeing karl rove, john yoo, and david frum criticize the administration's lawlessness more stridently than dem leadership. you, reader, were infected with rabies by a brown bat 36 hours ago and this is all just the virus working its way through your nervous system
September 18, 2025 at 2:11 AM
great news! you're not actually seeing karl rove, john yoo, and david frum criticize the administration's lawlessness more stridently than dem leadership. you, reader, were infected with rabies by a brown bat 36 hours ago and this is all just the virus working its way through your nervous system
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Report: Disney to execute Lisa Simpson for insufficient respect shown to Charlie Kirk.
September 18, 2025 at 12:53 AM
Report: Disney to execute Lisa Simpson for insufficient respect shown to Charlie Kirk.
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Some killings you're allowed to joke about.
Vance on Trump's strikes on boats: "I wouldn't go fishing right now in that area of the world."
September 17, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Some killings you're allowed to joke about.
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this is quite genuinely insane, and I want to believe the backlash to this will be severe
ABC Pulls Jimmy Kimmel Off Air for Charlie Kirk Comments
www.nytimes.com
September 17, 2025 at 10:56 PM
this is quite genuinely insane, and I want to believe the backlash to this will be severe
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What’s incredibly frustrating is that NPS rangers and staff are generally incredibly conscientious historic interpreters who are aware of the importance of history
"At Manassas National Battlefield Park in Virginia, Trump officials have instructed park employees to take down a sign that criticizes the post-Civil War 'Lost Cause' ideology, which romanticized the Confederacy and denied slavery’s central role in the conflict." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/c...
Park Service Is Ordered to Take Down Some Materials on Slavery and Tribes
www.nytimes.com
September 16, 2025 at 7:21 PM
What’s incredibly frustrating is that NPS rangers and staff are generally incredibly conscientious historic interpreters who are aware of the importance of history
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The right wing billionaires are soon going to control almost every single major media outlet.
* ORACLE, SILVER LAKE, ANDREESSEN TO CONTROL TIKOK IN US: WSJ
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September 16, 2025 at 6:56 PM
The right wing billionaires are soon going to control almost every single major media outlet.
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Liberals say that the United States has gone from being a democracy to being a dictatorship. They're wrong—it's gone from being a republic to being a dictatorship.
August 25, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Liberals say that the United States has gone from being a democracy to being a dictatorship. They're wrong—it's gone from being a republic to being a dictatorship.
Auburn claiming 2004 here would be like NC State claiming the 2021 College World Series. Just because your fans loudly complain that you got screwed doesn't actually mean you have any standing lol
Auburn’s getting in the spirit of the season by hanging four more banners.
www.on3.com/teams/auburn...
www.on3.com/teams/auburn...
August 19, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Auburn claiming 2004 here would be like NC State claiming the 2021 College World Series. Just because your fans loudly complain that you got screwed doesn't actually mean you have any standing lol
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I'm just struck by this because man, nothing says "your state is failing" quite like "no one appears to be in charge of dealing with rotting human body parts strewn around"
The MAGA-led response to the Texas floods is going great - so great that locals are still finding rotting human body parts in the debris that no one in government appears to care about picking up:
“Nobody came”: Hill Country flooding survivors recount anguish, neglect during emotional hearing
Residents told state lawmakers about what they’ve lost and the hardships they’re experiencing almost a month after the July 4 disaster devastated the region.
www.texastribune.org
August 7, 2025 at 2:29 PM
I'm just struck by this because man, nothing says "your state is failing" quite like "no one appears to be in charge of dealing with rotting human body parts strewn around"
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We are in a deeply dangerous, illiberal place in America when the federal government will deploy law enforcement to force state legislators to act on legislation that's contrary to their conscience and an attempt to undermine free elections.
August 7, 2025 at 2:21 PM
We are in a deeply dangerous, illiberal place in America when the federal government will deploy law enforcement to force state legislators to act on legislation that's contrary to their conscience and an attempt to undermine free elections.
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looked up the clip just because sometimes people change his words for captions that end up innocently reshared, but upon finding it decided to share the video because hearing him say it makes it 1000% more definitely true and everyone will listen/believe more than reading it written out
March 27, 2025 at 9:34 PM
looked up the clip just because sometimes people change his words for captions that end up innocently reshared, but upon finding it decided to share the video because hearing him say it makes it 1000% more definitely true and everyone will listen/believe more than reading it written out
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Everything about this story is horrific:
1. The student never mentions Jews
2. The university is going to expel a student for criticizing a country over genocide
3. A Republican congressman is taking credit and implying the student is a Muslim terrorist
4. The U.S. Justice Department is involved
1. The student never mentions Jews
2. The university is going to expel a student for criticizing a country over genocide
3. A Republican congressman is taking credit and implying the student is a Muslim terrorist
4. The U.S. Justice Department is involved
The DOJ says it will investigate a US citizen for saying “fuck Isr**l” to a guy in an IDF shirt.
Absolutely the most anti-free speech admin of my lifetime. Probably since the Red Scare, if not earlier.
Absolutely the most anti-free speech admin of my lifetime. Probably since the Red Scare, if not earlier.
August 2, 2025 at 3:59 AM
Everything about this story is horrific:
1. The student never mentions Jews
2. The university is going to expel a student for criticizing a country over genocide
3. A Republican congressman is taking credit and implying the student is a Muslim terrorist
4. The U.S. Justice Department is involved
1. The student never mentions Jews
2. The university is going to expel a student for criticizing a country over genocide
3. A Republican congressman is taking credit and implying the student is a Muslim terrorist
4. The U.S. Justice Department is involved
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The Trump administration's insinuation that George Mason University is some liberal hive of wokeness is utter horseshit. GMU's Mercatus Center is one of the leading free-market think tanks around D.C. Its law school is named after Antonin Scalia!
OTOH, GMU hired a Black man as its president.
OTOH, GMU hired a Black man as its president.
NEW: When university president Gregory Washington received notice that the Trump administration had opened an investigation into complaints of antisemitism, he was “perplexed.”
But there are signs it may be part of a coordinated campaign to oust him.
But there are signs it may be part of a coordinated campaign to oust him.
George Mason Is the Latest University Under Fire From Trump. Its President Fears an “Orchestrated” Campaign.
When university president Gregory Washington received notice that the Trump administration had opened an investigation into complaints of antisemitism, he was “perplexed.” But there are signs it may…
www.propublica.org
July 11, 2025 at 1:52 PM
The Trump administration's insinuation that George Mason University is some liberal hive of wokeness is utter horseshit. GMU's Mercatus Center is one of the leading free-market think tanks around D.C. Its law school is named after Antonin Scalia!
OTOH, GMU hired a Black man as its president.
OTOH, GMU hired a Black man as its president.
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No exaggeration, this is Declaration of Independence-level tyranny. It's indistinguishable from other "injuries and usurpations" listed by Jefferson in the document. Many don't come close to this level of arrogant hostility.
CBP SECTOR CHIEF GREG BOVINO TO LA RESIDENTS: “We don’t work for Karen Bass… better get used to us now, this is going to be normal very soon.”🤔
If it quacks like Martial Law…
How long til Cali folks move to stop funding this with their tax dollars?
If it quacks like Martial Law…
How long til Cali folks move to stop funding this with their tax dollars?
July 9, 2025 at 2:25 PM
No exaggeration, this is Declaration of Independence-level tyranny. It's indistinguishable from other "injuries and usurpations" listed by Jefferson in the document. Many don't come close to this level of arrogant hostility.
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hi, newspaper expert here. this isn't funny, newspapers only do this when they're in extreme distress
Patrick Healy, NYT assistant managing editor for Standards and Trust, wrote a thread on how the Zohran Mamdani/Columbia story came together:
July 5, 2025 at 1:09 AM
hi, newspaper expert here. this isn't funny, newspapers only do this when they're in extreme distress
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We are, and this is very literal, in a war for the human spirit. That is the framing of how the other side already sees it. And this is their vision.
showing off my free concentration camp merch. My soul is just out of frame, intact and not bound by dark blood rites to the eternal service of Moloch the Devourer
July 1, 2025 at 6:11 PM
We are, and this is very literal, in a war for the human spirit. That is the framing of how the other side already sees it. And this is their vision.